What are the opposite words for depressing?
Depressing is a feeling of extreme sadness and hopelessness. However, there are several antonyms to this word that evoke joy and happiness. Some of the antonyms for depressing are uplifting, encouraging, inspiring, refreshing, delightful, and exhilarating. When we feel uplifted, we find comfort and confidence that things will get better, and our spirits are lifted. Encouraging words or actions boost our motivation and help us strive towards goals. Inspiration stimulates creativity and sparks ideas. Feeling refreshed rejuvenates our mind and body, bringing a new sense of energy. Delightful experiences bring joy and pleasure, and exhilarating moments trigger excitement and thrill. These antonyms give us a chance to experience and enjoy the opposite of what we may be feeling.
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- energizing
- invigorating
- cheerful
- exciting
- bright
- cheering
- refreshing
- activating
- comforting
- entertaining
- happy
- humorous
- tonic
- encouraging
- exhilarating
- rosy
- stimulating
- thrilling
- shining, glowing in appearance
- chilly, refreshing (weather)
- discouraging, upsetting
- animating
- amusing, pleasing
- stimulating, cheering
- funny, comical
- reinvigorating
- new; rejuvenating
- pink, reddish in color
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
- energizing
- invigorating
- cheerful
- exciting
-
bright
- aglow,
- auroral,
- fulgid,
- hued,
- lively,
- moonlit,
- palmy,
- phosphorescent,
- razzle-dazzle,
- silvery,
- sunlit,
- Clear-headed,
- Relucent,
- palmiest,
- eggheaded,
- glitzy,
- wideawake,
- clear headed,
- glitziest,
- having smarts,
- in candescent,
- in tense,
- in tenser,
- in-tense,
- in-tenser,
- in-tensest,
- more aglow,
- more alight,
- more burnished,
- more clear-headed,
- more coruscating,
- more eggheaded,
- more einstein,
- more fulgid,
- more illumined,
- more irradiated,
- more joyous,
- more lighted,
- more mirrorlike,
- more moonlit,
- more razzle dazzle,
- more razzle-dazzle,
- more razzledazzle,
- more relucent,
- more silvery,
- more tinged,
- most aglow,
- most alight,
- most auroral,
- most clear headed,
- most clear-headed,
- most eggheaded,
- most einstein,
- most flashing,
- most fulgid,
- most hued,
- most illumined,
- most irradiated,
- most joyous,
- most mirrorlike,
- most moonlit,
- most phosphorescent,
- most razzle dazzle,
- most razzle-dazzle,
- most razzledazzle,
- most relucent,
- most silvery,
- most sunlit,
- most tinged,
- palmier,
- quick witted,
- quickwitted,
- razzle dazzle,
- razzledazzle,
- re lucent,
- re-lucent,
- re-splendent,
- trans lucent,
- trans parent,
- trans-lucent,
- trans-parent,
- un clouded,
- wide awake.
- cheering
- refreshing
- activating
-
comforting
- consolatory,
- Succoring,
- health-giving,
- freeinger,
- freeingest,
- health giving,
- healthgiving,
- heart warming,
- heart-warming,
- in spiriting,
- in-spiriting,
- more abating,
- more allaying,
- more alleviating,
- more analeptic,
- more assuaging,
- more consolatory,
- more consoling,
- more health giving,
- more health-giving,
- more healthgiving,
- more heart warming,
- more heart-warming,
- more inspiriting,
- more lightening,
- more mitigating,
- more reassuring,
- more relieving,
- more remedying,
- more restoring,
- more revitalizing,
- more revivifying,
- more solacing,
- more succoring,
- more sustaining,
- more tranquilizing,
- more upholding,
- more warming,
- most abating,
- most allaying,
- most alleviating,
- most analeptic,
- most assuaging,
- most consolatory,
- most consoling,
- most health giving,
- most health-giving,
- most healthgiving,
- most heart warming,
- most heart-warming,
- most inspiriting,
- most lightening,
- most mitigating,
- most reassuring,
- most relieving,
- most remedying,
- most restoring,
- most revitalizing,
- most revivifying,
- most solacing,
- most succoring,
- most tranquilizing,
- most upholding,
- most warming,
- re assuring,
- re storing,
- re vitalizing,
- re vivifying,
- re-assuring,
- re-storing,
- re-vitalizing,
- re-vivifying,
- up holding,
- up-holding.
-
entertaining
- rioter,
- screamer,
- Re-creative,
- Recreative,
- gasser,
- be a ball,
- be ball,
- de lightful,
- de-lightful,
- ex citing,
- gassest,
- in spiring,
- in-spiring,
- more captivating,
- more recreative,
- more relaxing,
- more side splitting,
- more side-splitting,
- most captivating,
- most side splitting,
- most side-splitting,
- pro vocative,
- pro-vocative,
- re creative,
- riotest,
- screamest,
- side splitting.
- happy
- humorous
- tonic
- encouraging
-
exhilarating
- stimulative,
- Animative,
- exhilarative,
- exhilaratory,
- eye popping,
- eyepopping,
- more animative,
- more elevating,
- more exalting,
- more exhilarative,
- more exhilaratory,
- more gladdening,
- more stimulative,
- more tonic,
- most animative,
- most elevating,
- most exalting,
- most exhilarative,
- most exhilaratory,
- most gladdening,
- most stimulative,
- most tonic,
- up lifting,
- up-lifting.
-
rosy
- coral,
- incarnadine,
- peach,
- Aflush,
- High-colored,
- Peacher,
- deep pink,
- healthy looking,
- healthy-looking,
- healthylooking,
- high colored,
- highcolored,
- more coral,
- more healthy looking,
- more healthylooking,
- more high colored,
- more highcolored,
- more red-complexioned,
- more red-faced,
- more redcomplexioned,
- more redfaced,
- most aflush,
- most healthy looking,
- most healthy-looking,
- most healthylooking,
- most high colored,
- most highcolored,
- most incarnadine,
- most red complexioned,
- most red faced,
- most red-complexioned,
- most red-faced,
- most redcomplexioned,
- most redfaced,
- pale red,
- peachest,
- red complexioned,
- red faced,
- red-complexioned,
- redcomplexioned,
- redfaced,
- rose colored,
- rosecolored.
-
stimulating
- animating,
- invigorating,
- quickening,
- vitalizing,
- Vivifying,
- adrenalizing,
- hair raising,
- hairraising,
- more adrenalizing,
- more arousing,
- more electrifying,
- more titillating,
- most adrenalizing,
- most arousing,
- most challenging,
- most electrifying,
- most titillating,
- spine tingling,
- spinetingling,
- thought provoking,
- thoughtprovoking.
-
thrilling
- fab,
- mind-bending,
- rip-roaring,
- blood-tingling,
- blood tingling,
- bloodtingling,
- fabber,
- fabbest,
- mind bending,
- mind blowing,
- mindbending,
- mindblowing,
- more blood tingling,
- more blood-tingling,
- more bloodtingling,
- more mind bending,
- more mind-bending,
- more mindbending,
- more rip roaring,
- more rip-roaring,
- more riproaring,
- more shivering,
- more trembling,
- most blood tingling,
- most blood-tingling,
- most bloodtingling,
- most mind bending,
- most mind-bending,
- most mindbending,
- most rip roaring,
- most rip-roaring,
- most riproaring,
- most shivering,
- most trembling,
- over whelming,
- over-whelming,
- rip roaring,
- riproaring,
- zero cool.
- shining, glowing in appearance
- chilly, refreshing (weather)
-
discouraging, upsetting
- bright,
- cheerful,
- cheering,
- encouraging,
- exhilarating,
- glad,
- happy,
- joyful,
- light,
- pleasant,
- sunny,
- comforting.
- animating
- amusing, pleasing
- stimulating, cheering
- funny, comical
- reinvigorating
- new; rejuvenating
-
pink, reddish in color
- rosy.
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
leading the way
- Antonyms:
- abandon, follow, misguide.
